About Us

Here at SUPERSHAPE we are totally committed to helping you achieve your fitness and bodyshaping goals through professional and personal ongoing help and advice from two of the most experienced weight training and fitness coaches in Australia.

Former miss Universe winner(1999) and current multi Powerlifting world record holder Taylor Young with 25 years teaching experience.

And Laurie Butler, Master coach with 43 years teaching experience and 49 years competition background in Olympic lifting, Bodybuilding and Powerlifting ,holder of over 40 Australian records and also a current multi world record holder.

SUPERSHAPE is a very unique gym with affordable personal training programs and over 235 pieces of fitness and strength equipment many specially built and designed for us so that our clients never get bored or have to queue or wait for equipment.

If you really want the best gym and trainers for your body have a look around our website to find out a lot more details and then fill out the free week trial section and come and see for yourself if you feel SUPERSHAPE is the BEST PLACE FOR YOUR BODY.

Apart from having a REALLY fully equipped gym at your disposal so you can have fantastic variety of cardio, pin loaded strength machines and heaps of free weights and dumbbells we have found over all the many years of teaching fitness, strength and bodyshaping that the single most important thing that almost every person needs if they really want RESULTS they can see and feel without getting hurt is ongoing professional help and coaching from people who REALLY know how to train you properly and can prove it .Here`s a bit of info on the OWNER and OPERATERS of SUPERSHAPE. These will be your trainers and you decide if you think they know what their doing when it comes to weight training and if you can trust them to get your body in great condition

LAURIE BUTLER

Laurie has been running gyms and personally training people since 1968 and has helped over 30 000 people to be happy with their bodies. Their ages range from early teens to very elderly and their aims and goals from body fat loss and general overall fitness to sports specific training, rehabilitation of injuries, improving capabilities and body composition(muscle tone to body fat ratio) and also competition body building and powerlifting.

Laurie is a level 2 Australian Coaching Council coach in weightlifting and powerlifting and has been competing in weightlifting, body building and powerlifting since 1962 winning many contests and best lifter titles along the way and still has many current Australian records and also is a current multi world record holder the latest being the best deadlifter in the world in the over 60 years age division with a lift of 300kg in August 2010.

Laurie's best competion lifts are Squat-342.5kg, Bench Press-212.5kg, deadlift-347.5kg, Total 892.5kg all at 90kg bodyweight. All done when he was 46 years old to 52 years old. Laurie was in the best shape of his life at 46 years old when he won his last Body Building contest and he won his first at 21 years of age- just look at the improvement over the 25 years.

TAYLOR YOUNG

Taylor started weight training and fitness in her late 20`s after she had three children and wanted to try and get her body and self esteem back into good condition. She joined a fitness centre with the usual ‘qualified personal trainer” and as usual found out she was not getting results and of course wasting her time , money and effort, then she heard about a bloke called Laurie Butler who was getting fantastic results for his clients so she joined his gym called SUPERSHAPE in Bendigo and went on his Unique TOTAL BODICARE personal training exercise and diet program for a couple of years and experienced the difference that doing it properly made. Laurie was so impressed with her attitude he offered her part time work and started teaching her how to train other people.

Then she told Laurie she wanted to do competition Body Building and entered her first contest in 1990 and placed second and after many contests over the years she went on to win the Best Body in The World contest –MISS UNIVERSE in England in1999. 10 international judges placed her first unanimously. No other Australian woman has done so since. She was 45 years old.

In 2010 she won Australias best bodybuilding contest- The Southern Hemisphere at the age of 56 years proving that as you get older you can still have a fantastic body with great health and super capabilities and that anyone can can achieve this and maintain it as long as they keep doing what is good for them—healthy eating, weight training done properly, cardio and stretching.

Taylor also started competition Powerlifting at the same time in 1990 and has become Australia`s best ever female strength athelete currently holding many Australian records and is also a multi world record holder in squat-210 kg, bench press-120kg, deadlift-215kg and total 535kg at a bodyweight or 67.5kg.

If your serious about getting your body into good condition and If you want the best trainers you should come and see us. Try our free week trial offer and you be the judge.